A DAY WITHOUT POLICEMAN (HK, 1993)

Director: Johnny Lee Gwing-Gaai

SIMON YAM in a completely whacked out gore fest. In lunatic cinema there are two names you should write on your wall - and they are both hongkongese! Anthony Wong and Simon Yam! If you like RUN AND KILL then... track down DAY WITHOUT POLICEMAN at any cost. It's on VCD/VHS/LD and there's an okay reg. 1 DVD from Tai Seng.

This is definitely one of my favourite Simon Yam films and it's sadly an overlooked one - even by genre film fans. Yam plays a cop but in contradiction to most other cop flicks the main character in this one isn't a heroic tough one. He is in fact a coward! So altho the "hero" gets thrown into one violent scene after another it's a very different film. However, that doesn't keep the second half form becoming one long ride into bloodshed.

The vcd and dvd that I have both carry crappy English subs that are even worse than what we're used to but it doesn't distract all that much from the excitement of watching this cool flick. I would advise that you don't read the capsule reviews on HKMDB as most of them (three out of four if I remember correctly) piss all over the film. They don't seem to enjoy all that many Hong Kong films on HKMDB - which is kinda odd seeing as it's, well, you know, Hong Kong Movie Data Base!! Maybe most of the reviewers are Hongkongese and they simply don't get the same thrill out of their local cinema as gwilos like me do. o_O

I tried to find a trailer but there doesn't seem to be one anywhere. But anyhoo, if you're into old-skool heroic bloodshed movies from HK then you need to check this one out. Highly recommended!

I just checked YesAsia and they still have the Tai Seng dvd in stock.

Category III horror: ETERNAL EVIL OF ASIA (Hong Kong, 1995)

Laserdisc / HK

DVD / Taiwan / alternative print

THE UNTOLD STORY (Hong Kong, 1993)

aka BUNMAN

Category III



Based on true events that took place in Macau some years back. The story has been filmed several times.
Herman Yau and Anthony Wong's great big insane video nasty masterpiece! Along with the team's EBOLA SYNDROME this is THEE shit!! If you're into horror movies but haven't seen this one then everyone who is "in the know" is gonna laugh right into your face when you tell them! They're gonna call you a 5 minute fanboy. A poser. And then they're gonna show you the door. Haha.

Skip the HK DVD (cos it cut and fullscreen) and get this excellent DVD from Tai Seng. Correct format and uncut. I believe the German DVD is equally good (and comes with handy chop sticks) but I haven't seen that one. For a perfect video nasty evening watch these two (if you can stomach them both in one go) and if you've got the whole evening kick off with Yau & Wong's TAXI HUNTER. :D


Thai poster (and yes I own it!)

HK laserdisc

THE BOXER'S OMEN (Hong Kong, 1983)

VCD / HK / letterbox / Cantonese & Mandarin / English subs

Awesome, wild and crazy (crazy like in no-holds-barred wacky!) horror film from SB.

NB: the entry on HKMDB is wrong. The original Chinese dialect isn't Mandarin but Cantonese. Maybe someone made that entry after having bought the reg. 1 DVD thinking the US company would do things right. Well, they didn't! The DVD carries the wrong Chinese dialect, the right one is Cantonese. There's also some brief English dialogue in the film. In the Mandarin dub this is just dubbed into Mandarin. The HK video-cd from Celestial has both audio tracks and the picture quality is awesome for a VCD. Someone ought to make a fan dub with the reg. 1 DVD and add the correct audio.

EBOLA SYNDROME (Hong Kong, 1996)

Category III
VCD / HK / letterbox / Cantonese & Mandarin / English subs

dir: Herman Yau
main psycho: Anthony Wong

RUN AND KILL (Hong Kong, 1993)

VHS / Japan

Nasty "stalk and revenge" category III film starring everyone's fave HK psycho Simon Yam (well, on par with Anthony Wong, LOL) and Kent Cheng is here too. Don't run thru that door, Kent!! Oop, what was that that fell off?? O_O
Highly recommended. The HK dvd is cut. There's an uncut dvd (with English subs) from Austria.